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“For a sample of Syracuse Police stop data… The odds of a black driver being stopped (relative to nonblack drivers) increase 15% in daylight [when race is more easily observed] as compared to darkness."
How Dark Is Dark? Bright Lights, Big City, Racial Profiling
Review of Economics and Statistics
Vol. 98 Issue 2, pp. 226–232,
2016
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